In this article, I am going to teach you how to create a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service Face API in half an hour. Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services is a set of APIs and services available for developers to make their applications more interactive and intelligent. This was formerly known as Project Oxford. Here Microsoft uses Machine Learning in the background to create these APIs. So far we have the preceding list of APIs.

Emotion and video detection.

Facial recognition.

Speech recognition.

Vision recognition.

Speech and language understanding.

Prerequisites

Azure subscription.

Visual Studio.

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